CHAPTER ONE: THE SPIKE IN PHISHING AMID THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Key terms for this chapter
• Authentication: Verifying the identity of a user or process
• Authority: A sense of having or being in a position of control
• Chaos theory: An interdisciplinary theory stating that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnectedness, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals, and self-organization
• Initial condition: A value of an evolving variable at some point in time designated as the initial time
• Mail headers: In an email, the body (content text) is always preceded by header lines that identify particular routing information of the message, including the sender, recipient, ...
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